When I was in public high school in the 1970’s, my school had Youth for Christ. It was an officially-recognized student organization. They met at the school in the evening. They even had their picture in the yearbook. If a school won’t allow students to gather informally at school on the free time, I guess there wouldn’t be much hope (in some school districts, at least) for YFC.
So my question would be: what has changed in the realm of constitution law in the past forty years that puts the students at this school in violation of “the separation of church and state”? Or do these cases come from the whim of some pea-brained school administrator?
When you consider all the bad stuff that can go on in a school these days, it’s really amazing that school administrators wind up coming down on the praying kids.
The only constitution that says “the church is separated from the state and the school from the church” is the old USSR one. So you can figure out where these teachers are coming from based on that.